Ableton Live 10 Announced Today - Max4Live Baked In

New Instruments, features and workflow acceleration 01/11/17

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Ableton has announced the long-awaited update to Ableton Live, though the final release won't be until early 2018. As the first major iteration for around 4.5 years, Live 10 has been highly anticipated.

Probably the biggest bit of news is that Max For Live now comes as standard - it's fully integrated into the application which means faster loads, less CPU stress, and new features. We imagine this will see a growth in Max 4 Live devices as now everyone who uses the new Live 10 version can access them.

Additionally there are four new devices as standard:

Wavetable is a new synth.With a variety of waveforms derived from analog synths and a range of other instruments and sounds, as well as modeled analog filters, and, flexible modulation.

There's also an upgraded core sound library and several new instrument packs and collections of curated instruments.

Max For Live also has some new features, including new audio routing options and devices can now send and receive SYSEX MIDI.

We've not had the chance to physically check out LIVE 10 yet, but we're hoping to see a few tweaks and features in the GUI, time will tell...

Pricing and Availability:We don't have upgrade pricing or policy information available as yet, Ableton say that the cost will be shown when you log in to your Ableton account at the time of release (1st quarter of 2018). But pricing is available for new customers: